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Creative Woodturning by Dale 1. Nish. Illustrated, 248 pages, Bngham Young University Press, Provo, Utah 84602, 1975, $6.95, paperback. Of the dozen or so books devoted to the lathe, Dale 1. Nish's Creative Woodtuming is easily the best. SAVE OVER Sl, 000 ON THE SHOP YOU HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED ABOUT I Setting up a first class home work- shop can be easy and does not need to cost you a small fortune. Send for your FREE copy of "What to look for when you buy power tools." This booklet will help you with your plans. You'll also receive information on how you can have a woodworking system any master craftsman would be proud to own. Over 300,000 Shopsmith owners since 1947 are evidence of the popularity and versatility of the Shopsmith Mark V system. The Shopsmith Mark V is actually five top quality tools in one compact unit . . . yet costs one-third the price the five tools it replaces. 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Box 32 Shopsmith, Inc., Dept. 63-F Tipp City, Ohio 45371 Turning is a devilishly difficult art to describe in words, and learning to turn from a book, as mosr of us must do, is frustrating if not impossible. Nish solves the problem with 587 step-by-step photographs, ranked three to a page. The pictures are closely cropped, sharp and clear and the detailed instructions are right alongside - no maddening flipping from photo to text and back again. He breaks the subject into its component parts and devotes a chapter to each : equipment, sharpening, stock selection, smoothing a cylinder, beads and coves, and so forth. The test for such a book has to be its sections on using the skew chisel, that most difficult but most useful tool. Nish unravels the confusion m excellent, detailed sequences . In general, he tells us, he prefers to use cutting tools because they produce the best work and the most satisfaction, while allowing that scraping is easier to learn. The between-centers chapters give both methods. But bowl turning is another matter. Although a long-andstrong deep gouge for faceplate work graces the book's cover, the tool never appears in the text. In every other respect the book is comprehensive. But all the bowls are scraped. One who would learn to use the bowl gouge must still rely upon Peter Child's authoritative, difficult and expensive book, The Craftsman W oodtumer. Nish goes light on detailed plans for making pepper mills and lamp bases -- a good thing. Instead he displays 111 photos, some in color, of finished work. · • I I o YES, please send me my FREE copy of "What to look for when you buy power tools." I understand that there is no obligation. I I I I Most of it is by Nish himself and by his technical adviser, the venerable E.N. Pearson. Robert Stocksdale and Robert G. Trout are also represented. All of this work is lovely ; none of it ventures beyond the usual spindle and bowl. 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